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Remap Problems, cause and effect ?

Remap problems press release.

In an already overly saturated market place the Remap Engine Tuning industry has already seen its fair share of winners and losers, from catastrophic engine failure to minor niggles, all are most unwelcome in the Remap Engine Tuning Arena.

With so many companies out there it is Very difficult to know where to even start, never mind who you choose to trust to remap your Â£50,000 new motor car.

With many new companies popping up almost over night, it can be a real mine field out there.

Get it wrong and it could leave you sat on the hard shoulder in a cloud of black smoke with your head in your hands wondering what happened and where you went wrong.

One company out there is claiming it wants to try and change all this and try to reinstall some confidence back into what is a great industry, the company is called Remaps UK.

Based in Cheshire Remaps UK is a custom remap engine tuning company based in the North west of England, providing a mobile engine tuning service across the UK . They consider themselves the experts when it comes to economy and custom written performance remap engine tuning. From economy to race Remaps UK can custom write ant spec of file you require!

‘Remap Problems – Remapping isn’t easy, it’s a specialist skill’.

Company owner and technical director, Andy who has been involved in the tuning, programming and automotive industry for the last 20 years was asked about his experiences from within the remap tuning industry and about his experiences with remap problems, he said â€œI have lost count of how many calls I get a month from customers who have picked price over product and found themselves with a car that wonâ€™t start or even worse a blown engineâ€¦â€ he went on to say â€œ This really is a highly skilled industry with far to many individuals setting up shop, buying the kit from a particular ‘online’ auction site with a disk full of various generic remap files, building a website and buying a ‘Pay & Go’ mobile phone and now consider themselves a Remap Engine Tuning Expertâ€¦and the thing is, they are getting away with it. Walking away with your money, leaving the unlucky ones out of pocket with a broken car sat on the drive and a bunch of remap problems and vehicle issues to sort out…it really isn’t on!â€

Pushed further about the remap engine tuning industry and remap problems Andy revealed some shocking stories of customers who have contacted Remaps UK with there remap problems and experiences. Andy also spoke about customers Remaps UK have worked with to help get back on the road, he said â€œ we had one particular customer, really nice gentleman who called Remaps UK for a performance remap engine tuning quote, he stated he had found a cheaper company who would do the work for him, after explaining how we do things here at Remaps UK, explaining all our remap files are live and custom written on the day and are not a generic file, that we also have a Â£2 million Royal Sun Alliance backed warranty and that all our files are created by us, developed by Remaps UK here in the UK, he still chose to use the Alternative cheaper companyâ€ he continued â€œ a week later the same customer contacted us here at Remaps UK stating that the remap engine tune that was done by the other company wasnâ€™t a total success, in fact the whole ordeal was a complete failure, resulting in the vehicle not starting at all!â€ he added â€œthe said remap company, allegedly remap tuned the car, which was in fact an 2008 Audi A6 2.0 TDi 140 bhp, then told the customer it needed to reboot and would take 30 minutes to complete, took the customers money and left the premisesâ€¦the customer tried the vehicle, which then failed to start, tried to contact the said company and found the number was out of service and within hours the website shut down and gone!â€

Andy at Remaps UK went on to explain, stating â€œ The customer was understandably in some distress about the whole ordeal, he was also annoyed that heâ€™d allowed this to happen and wondered how he’d ended up with these remap problemsâ€ , he went on to explain â€œthe previous remap tinkerer had totally fudged up the remap, pushing a generic file onto the ECU (after analysis we found the file that had been written was for a totally different engine code and model which created the remap problem for the customer!) we had to do a total rebuild of the ECU from scratchâ€¦.â€ and added â€œ luckily for the customer weâ€™re probably one of the only few remap engine tuning companies in the country who have the expertise to do this and whatâ€™s more we stood by our initial price quoted, even though our work was doubledâ€¦we felt it was important to go the extra mile for the customer without the extra cost, plus heâ€™d already had enough problems for one week, it was now up to us to put the smile back on his faceâ€¦we think he learnt his lesson â€, â€œ needless to say the customer was over the moon with the finished result and no more remap problems, he was also and very, very, thankful if somewhat a little embarrassed â€

Other remap problems are also common place he went on to say â€œ we have visited cars with the wrong map installed, we found a remap file for an Audi 1.9 tdi on a vehicle that should have had an Audi 2.0 tdi file, a Mercedes Benz SL55 amg with a remap file for a SL500, the list goes on, but one thing the customer probably wouldnâ€™t find out about is the fact that we have had previously remapped vehicles in that have had the vehicle immobiliser codes erased! Which means anyone with a key could start your carâ€ he added â€œwe even had a BMW 330d which had been previously remapped by another company, the customer still had the flat spot in the rev range that he wanted removing in the first place, when we analysed his ECU we found no upgraded had been installed whatsoever even though heâ€™d paid for one! Now thatâ€™s just a ridiculous exercise in maximising profit at any expense, this really annoys and angers us here at Remaps UK, and is potentially damaging what is inherently a great industryâ€

Remap Problems & Dangers – with great power comes lots of problems!

This story is becoming all too common, but what is being done to stop it? How can this be avoided in the first place, we asked Andy what the future of remap tuning was likely to be and what Remaps UK as a company were doing to bring back customer confidence. He said â€œ Good honest business, in short, we invest heavily into our equipment which allows us to produce and develop what we consider the highest quality remap engine tuning files availableâ€ he also added â€œthrough painstaking hours of testing we have come up with and un locked some of the most hard to tune vehicles out there in the industry, with fantastic resultsâ€¦improved economy, reduced carbon footprint and increased performance, these are all achievable with a reputable Remap Tuning companyâ€, â€œ the key to good remap tuning is time invested and experience gained through rigorous testing and development, which all in all costs money, without the investment, we could not produce the high calibre remap files that we doâ€ , â€with big advances in Engine management technology the new breed of remap tuning is becoming more and more intricate, you really need to know what you are doing, ask questions to see how far the Remap Engine tuners knowledge goes, what the tuners background is? How long have they been in the remap engine tuning industry? all really simple things, but rarely get asked once the customer has been offered the deal of a lifetime and more bhp than a Veyron! If the deal sounds too good to be true, it usually isâ€ he added â€œ or course, ultimately the choice is down to the customer, you have the right to choose, just make sure itâ€™s the right choiceâ€

So what started out as an insight into the dark and gloomy world of Remap Engine tuning and remap problems,Â looks set to be a brighter place, with the right company, if chosen carefully?

Andy went on to explain â€œ the benefits of remap tuning far out weigh the minority of budget end low grade remap tuners out there creating the majority of remap problemsâ€¦â€ he continued by saying â€œwith a high quality remap upgrade customers can expect increased throttle response, better fuel economy, reduced carbon emissions, better performance and smoother power delivery, just make sure you pick a company you are comfortable with and you will become a happy member of the remap tuned vehicle club and not the remap problems one!â€

The Remaps UK BMW 335d remap project nears it’s end…

and it’s been emotional!

For those of you have been following the remap story of the BMW 335d remap E92 Coupe, it now approaches the end of its run and also marks the end of all the fun we have had with this truly outstanding vehicle.

Mile after mile the BMW 335d remap gave us smiles!

We covered over 5k miles in our 335d remap project car, from a stock bhp of 286 right through to the performance blend remap which took it to figures to 325bhp. May we also add, that we loved every single mile, every second of it’s 0-60,Â in fact we found it very hard to put down the keys, and even harder to sell this on!

The BMW 335d remap Proof is in the pudding or on the dyno!

The final run for the 335d will involve a full day on the rolling road and a final custom race remap tune to really see what the BMW 335d is a capable of, we know from experience that the straight six is a phenomenal engine and that higher figures are more than within the tolerances of the BMW 335d, but as I am sure you are aware, we here at Remaps UK love to get the balance just right in terms of performance and economy. On this remap tune though, we are throwing the rule book out of the window! And i for one can’t wait!!

Watch this space for the final chapter in the life of the remapped BMW 335d by Remaps UK.

The Mighty BMW 335d Remap

Well itâ€™s been nearly one month

since Remaps UK took delivery of our new BMW E92 335d and we are mightily

impressed so far with this hot, sleek performer.

You canâ€™t deny that even with stock/standard settings on the ECU the BMW 335d is a force to be reckoned with, putting much more exotic vehicles to shame with itâ€™s awesome twin turbo 3.0 diesel engine power.

So what’s the story so far for the BMW 335d Remap â€¦.

In stock form, from the factory settings, we thought the 335d performed reasonably well, with a slight lag low down of the mark,Â great pull through the mid range and ever so slightly lacking at the top end of the rev range, but if were honest this was really being a bit picky!

The average figures for the BMW 335d, on the mpg and efficiency side were ranging from low 30â€™s for mixed driving and 38-41 whilst cruising. All in all a very respectable set of results from a vehicle producing a claimed 286bhp with stock settings from BMW.

So what next for the BMW 335d remap projectâ€¦.

We have just finished our first part of the project and started off with the custom written remap option we call â€˜the Blendâ€™. This style of upgrade we used on the 335d is a bespoke custom tune that gives the driver the best of both worlds, seeing a marked improvement in mpg and bhp, or the ‘best of both worlds’.

Bang for buck we think our remap option called the ‘blend’ is the best value for money remap option available so far!

So how did the BMW 335d perform after its Remap?

In one word astounding! Like the BMW 330d project we ran before, the difference between stock and â€˜the blendâ€™ remap option is fantastic. Zero lag, mid range punch is phenomenal pulling cleanly and strongly right through the rev range with no hint of a flat spot anywhere. Overall Very Very impressive!

MPG figures went up to 36-38 normal mixed driving and saw 48 mpg on motorway runs (we feel these are modest figures as when we tested the 335d we had -8 degrees!!) And all this from a car producing 325 bhp!

The remap option â€˜blendâ€™ on the 335d is perfectly placed and developed for everyday driving with a focus on increased performance without the sacrifice of reduced efficiency, this is a very hard thing to achieve and has taken a lot of work to get us there, but the results speak for themselves.

Needless to say, everybody fights for the 335d keys at the end of the working day!!

A Job well done so farâ€¦. but we have a lot more to do!

As we right this release we have just finished the fine tuning and development of the new performance fast road spec custom remap and have begun running the upgraded package on ourÂ BMW 335d today!

First impressions are simply stunning!

Watch this space for the next instalment of the BMW 335d Remap Project by Remaps UK

for the next chapter in the BMW 335d remap project click here for the full story!

Find out how to unlock your cars hidden potential now

As this engine is found across the entire BMW Range and runs on the same technology the BMW 335d remap project research and development allows us to cross platform this to all BMW 35d engines , Which include the BMW 535d Remap, BMW 635d remap, BMW X5 Remap and BMW x3 Remap.

A Big thanks to all the new members of the BMW 335d Remap, 635d remap & 535d remap club!

The team here at Remaps UK the UKâ€™s expert Engine tuning and ECU remap tuning company think its nice to be nice, thatâ€™s why we are officially thanking all those who we visited and remapped the BMW 335d, BMW 635d Remap & BMW 535d last month.

You know we love the chance to show you how good we can Remap Engine tune your cars and last month was no exception, we got to meet some great people but more importantly got to tune up some fantastic cars.

Everyone wants the BMW 335d Remap for performance only? we agree!

Firstly the BMW 335d, we got to Remap plenty of these, surprisingly everybody wanted the Performance remap. All results were as expected, awesome. Using the project BMW 335d Remap(Click Here to read more) as template for all the requested BMW 335d Remaps we developed some amazing Remap Engine upgrades, with every customer grinning from ear to ear and some just stunned by the resulting finished results! Â Testimonials will follow!

We settled on a strong performance remap for the BMW 335d of 345bhp â€“ 350bhp, this level gave the best results on road in terms of performance and efficiency. Â Needless to say all were very happy with the end result and left the team here at Remaps UK very happy and gave us a big pat on the back for all the months of development we put into producing this very high quality remap engine upgrade for BMW 335d.

But letâ€™s not forget the BMW 335d and its big brothers, the BMW 535d and BMW 635d , the same applies here too! We also applied the same remap science to these as well!Â A few more 350bhp remapped BMW 535d and BMW 635d’s on the roads and group of extremely happy customers!

We do enjoy seeing the look of amazement on their faces after the road test!

Probably the best BMW 335d Remap in the world!

We feel that we now have the countries best BMW 335d remap, BMW 635d remap and BMW 535d remap engine tuning options available. Through strict development and thorough testing we have come up with a smooth and progressive remap upgrade option to suite the characteristics of the BMW range, from the BMW 335d to the BMW 635d. Â All of which couldnâ€™t have been achieved without out our own 335d to play with!